On 03-Dec-04, Travis Pahl wrote: s>> Aside from the past three years, when has a GOP-controlled Congress done s>> this?
TP> I was born in 1977. Most of my life this is what I have seen. I do TP> not remember the reagon years well,... TP> A couple years later we got a GOP controlled house. They ran on their TP> contract with America which to a large degree was about smaller TP> government. They passed on larger budgets for Clinton to sign than we TP> had ever seen before.... Hmmm... didn't they balance the budget and generate a surplus? TP> ... Then a few years later we got a republican controlled senate and TP> white house and the spending has increased even more than it was in the TP> past.... Do you think it would have been prudent to cut the budget in the wake of 9/11? TP> ... My entire life I have heard nothing but 'smaller government smaller TP> government' from the republicans. They debate about it and pretend that TP> they really want it but each and every year they give us larger TP> government. they find an excuse each time so that the voters keep voting TP> for them. But never have they given us smaller government, or given up TP> on the charade. In our lives, it has been only recently that they've had the chance. s>>>> The majorities in the blue pockets are people who LIKE govt spending. TP>>> They should start voting for the republicans. They have increased TP>>> spending far more than the democrats have.... s>> But the Democrats have a long, colorful history of spending, whereas the s>> GOP is relatively new at it. Why do you think most govt employees are s>> militantly Democratic? TP> Actually the GOP has a pretty good history at it too.... Why do you think most govt employees are militantly Democratic? s>> I don't think that one cable channel and a handful of talk show hosts s>> qualify as "mass media." TP> Call it what you want. But Fox news is the number on 24 hours news TP> channel ... ... on cable ... s>> ... and talk radio is listened to by millions everyday. Almost as many as watch Dan Rather? s>> The blue media control the polls. TP> So republicans are just poll driven idiots? They do not care about TP> anything but polls run by their political opponents supporters. They TP> ignore their own media outlets and voters? Pretty much ... just like the rest of them. _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
